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Career Research Paper:
On My Way to the Pediatrician Life
Shawonuka Thomas
Jean Ribault Senior High School
Finance and Business Technology
Alfred J. Aviles, Instructor
March 19, 2010
Table of Contents
Chapter I: Introduction
Thesis …………………………………………………………………………….3
Chapter II: Characteristics
Work Setting ……………………………………………………………………..3
Tasks and Duties ………………………………………………………………..4
Employment Options ……………………………………………………………4
Chapter III: Requirements
Physical Requirements ………………………………………………………….4
Strengths and Aptitudes …………………………………………………………5
Training ……………………………………………………………………………5
Chapter IV: Employment Outlook
Career History ……………………………………………………………………6
Job Openings and Salary Expectations……………………………………......6
Predicted Changes ………………………………………………………………7
Chapter V: Personal Fit
Personal Satisfaction and Rewards ……………………………………………7
Personality Compatibility ………………………………………………………..8
Lifestyle Expectations ……………………………………………………………8
Chapter VI: My Plan
Necessary Skills ………………………………………………………………….9
Today ……………………………………………………………………………...9
Chapter VII: Conclusion
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Chapter I: Introduction
Thesis
Being a pediatrician is a very common job which most teens want to be but for me it took a lot of research to decide I want to be a pediatrician. The information of your life as a pediatrician is very helpful, it can also help you decide on rather you want to be a pediatrician not. It takes hard work because it job can become stressing at times. But if you like working with kids and teens then it all pays off. Being a pediatrician is a fun with a lot of hard work that comes with it if you want to make it to the top. The information in this research can inform you on what’s it like to be a pediatrician and the rewards and lots more. It career is a giving career and a important career because of the things that come with but if you think you are suitable for this job then it job is the right job for you and the job that will make you happy.
Chapter II: Characteristics
Work Setting:
Pediatricians work inside like an office, clinics, examining rooms and hospitals, either as a doctor or administrator. They run community health programs, they teach at medical schools. Their work environment has to deal with kids crying, yelling parents, stuffed animals, sick children, and can be very stressful if you are not really into the job working with children. Most pediatricians would rather work in an office or in a clinic rather than hospitals because it’s such a big place many people don’t want to go in and wait for hours, so most people end up going a family clinic. Where I understand that I will have the freedom to make decisions, have contact with others and exposed to disease or infections, and I know that working in an office I will most likely answer telephones, deal with external customers and have face to face discussions with your patients.
Tasks and Duties:
Pediatricians have many task and duties they have to follow like for example they have to look after children regularly to assess their growth and development, check patients conditions and programs also give treatment as necessary, they have to prepare reports for management of birth, death, and injured body parts and systems, they treat children with minor illness, chronic health problems and growth/development concerns. The most important task is to prescribe treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination and other medical care to treat or prevent sickness, diseases or injury in infants and children.
Employment Opportunities:
Being a Pediatrician you can work full-time or either part-time but part-time jobs have become attractive in years as Pediatricians look to balance work and family together. In part-time reports greater level of satisfaction than full-time because they got to do the job they love and also have time to spend with their family. For part-timers they are happier with the hours they work, than a full-timer. Pediatricians also have a highly flexible work time in this field because they sometimes have to stay hour’s late dealing with patients, like delivering babies or helping the lady who’s having to baby to get ready if she’s delivering the next morning, helping kids when they’re sick coming in the middle of the night or just staying late because you have paper work to do to catch up with or to get ready for on the next morning. And when they do go home sometimes in the middle of the night they can get a call in from work and they have to return to work early than usual.
Chapter III: Requirements
Physical Requirements
Physical requirements a pediatrician should have are to use their hands to handle, control or feel objects, tools, or controls. they must be able to stand for a long period of time while checking a patient, should speak clearly so listeners can understand what is being told, they should be able to hold their arm and hand in one position or hold the hand steady while moving the arm, they should also see objects that are less than a few feet away, last but not least they should be able to understand the speech of their patients and make quick prease adjustments to machine controls.
Strengths and Aptitudes
My strengths are Active listening, giving my full attention to what other people are saying and taking time to understand. Reading Comprehension, understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. I’m good at Active learning, understanding the implications of new information. Speaking, talking to others to convey information effectively. I’m also good with Coordination, adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions. Instructing, teaching others how to do something. And I know inductive reasoning, the ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions. But, on the other hand the things I need to improve is my social perceptiveness, being aware of other’s reaction and understanding why they react as if they do, and last but not least science, using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
Training
Students spend the first two years of medical school in labs and in classes. And in those classes and labs they attended they are learning to take medical histories, examine patients, and diagnose illness though rotations in internal medicine , they had to learn to practice with families, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and surgery. They gain experience in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses. And you have to complete 3 years of training. Doing your internships and residency years, while still learning you are not really in school and are getting paid for your work. You could apply for an accelerated college (medical program) and that can compress those eight year of school into just six or seven years. Four years of college and you can go to any university as long as you complete the classes that should be completed to be a pediatrician or in order to move to the next thing to reach this career.
Chapter IV: Employment Outlook
Career History
“Until the 19th century, doctors were responsible for the treatment of health care administered to children was done by mothers and midwives, according to an article by Dr. C. Becket Mahnkein the journal of pediatrics. Then medical licensing codes were introduced and people entered the medical profession, and doctors began to specialize in particular medical fields. Pediatric specialty was officially introduced in the United States in 1861 by German doctor Abraham Jacobi, according to a 2004 article published in the “Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings.” As long as children continue to be born the outlook of being a pediatric is good. The father of American pediatrician is Dr. Abraham Jacobi, a German pediatrician who arrived in New York in 1853.
Job Openings and Salary Expectations
Job Openings for pediatricians the government expects faster than average job growth through 2014. However changes in health care coverage and advances in technology. Physicians coming out of medical school are more likely to enter work at a hospital or a clinic rather than private practice; this will offer quality health care to larger populations. The types of jobs that is open for pediatric is things like adolescent medicine, allergy/immunology, cardiology, child development, critical care/intensivist, emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology, genetics, hematology/oncology, hospitalist, infectious disease, neonatal medicine, nephrology, pulmonologist, and rheumatology. According to salary.com, the current median expected salary for typical pediatricians in the United States is 14,258. The place I want to live is Tallahassee, Florida in that state there are jobs available for me to go work in with a salary of maybe109, 177 to 180,600 a year.
Predicted Changes
There have been pediatricians since 1990. This prediction could provide both opportunity and needs for practitioners to identify areas of maternal concern that might guide expansion of marketable physician services. Predictions that are made in this career are the amount of people that would want to be a pediatrician, the amount of pediatricians that will want to work for themselves instead of working for other businesses, and how many hours they will be working, which will probably more hours especially if the environment gets worst and you will need money to provide for their family. And the more babies that are being made the more work a pediatrician will have. Because back then people weren’t as many babies as people are having now a days and probably in the future.
Chapter V: Personal Fit
Personal Satisfaction and Rewards
The rewards often lead to work long career. For example, a general pediatrician working in the Cape Coral/Fort Myers, Florida area can expect to average $199,450 a year. And you make get rewards and things for maybe doing a lot of patients in one day or doing outstanding work. A special reward that a pediatrician can have is the reward of working with kids that’s the best reward a pediatrician can receive you’re doing the thing you love working with people you love to care for. Being all that you can be working hard to become that top notch pediatrician can be a reward because you can get things like becoming the world’s highest paid pediatrician or the pediatrician in the world where everyone will want to come to you for help instead of other people. Now that’s a reward that can last. The more hardworking you are the most patients and money you can earn and the faster you can get to the top of your career.
Personal Compatibility
This job is a suitable job for me because there’s a lot of communicate going on and if you know me you know I like to talk to people, which is something in this job that you will have to do a lot. I’m also excited to meet new people, all type of people no matter what race I like meeting new people and this job you will meet a lot of people and get to know them, I’m a trustworthy person which you will have to be if you want this career because people want pediatricians that they can trust at any giving time to do thing for them, they want a pediatrician that’s not going to lie to them about what’s going on with their body or try to steal their personal information. They also want someone they can trust around their kids that they won’t do anything to hurt them. You being at a job you can handle being in is a very important fact to doing good and being a great worker.
Lifestyle Expectations
Well something I expect to earn in starting my job is being watched by other pediatricians to make sure I’m doing the job right. And Looks to see if I’m good with working with my patients, showing and telling them what’s going on with his or her body. Things I expect to happen when I’m half way through my career is moving on to the next level in the career, getting bonus, and rewards for excellent work, And giving good care to my patients. And my income by this point would be something I can live with; it would be suitable for me to live off. I would expect to find work for my career in the people because if our children are getting sick and needed for regular checkups then that’s where I can find my work. Being a pediatrician fits in with my lifestyle very much because I’m willing to work long hours and be called in, in the middle of the night for a pediatricians help. Now a middle sized home in the suburbs with a husband and one child this career I believe this jobs provides enough money for my lifestyle family wise and cars wise too.
Chapter VI: My Plan
Necessary Skills
My current skills at this time are speaking, coordination, instructing, active listening, and social perceptiveness. The skills I need to acquire are things like, reading comprehension, complex problem solving, active learning and science. Some skills like hardworking, honest, loyal, and trustworthy are some skills that are just personal because people have those skills and some people don’t but it’s important in order to have this job you must be able to have these skills because hardworking will get you promotions and other things, being honest to people you work with being able to tell them the truth and what they need to know. And being trustworthy, you have to be able to have people that trust in you, you have to do things that will make people have your trust
Today
What I can do to start preparing for this job is take classes and does things like biology, chemistry, physics, algebra, geometry, English, take an foreign language, get involved in school charity organizations, extracurricular programs like students government, music programs and sports. In high school it’s really best if you take all the math and science that you can, because in order to get in to medical school you have to have a year of biology, a year of inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, calculus, English and a year of physics. You should volunteer at a clinic or a hospital to get the hanging of what it feels like to work around pediatricians and work with the things they work with.